Hacker News on Sunday, 15 June 2025

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)(tim.dierks.org)

520 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 223 comments

Tim Dierks' 2014 blog post explaining how Netscape-Microsoft browser war politics led SSL to be standardized and renamed as TLS.

How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router(olegkutkov.me)

321 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 105 comments

Blog post by Oleg Kutkov explaining how to modify a Starlink Mini terminal so it runs without its built-in WiFi router.

Datalog in Rust(github.com)

313 points by brson 1 year ago | 38 comments

Canyon.mid(canyonmid.com)

300 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 186 comments

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable(ourworldindata.org)

296 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 89 comments

Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look(quantamagazine.org)

290 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 242 comments

Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi(downtowndougbrown.com)

283 points by zdw 1 year ago | 82 comments

Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API(voxelmanip.se)

275 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 150 comments

Foundations of Computer Vision (2024)(visionbook.mit.edu)

221 points by tzury 1 year ago | 18 comments

3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without power(phys.org)

209 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 55 comments

David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'(thetimes.com)

203 points by herbertl 1 year ago | 112 comments

Show HN: Zeekstd – Rust Implementation of the ZSTD Seekable Format(github.com)

199 points by rorosen 1 year ago | 44 comments

The Art of Lisp and Writing (2003)(dreamsongs.com)

187 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 76 comments

How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video](youtube.com)

180 points by perching_aix 1 year ago | 52 comments

Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear(pnas.org)

174 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 108 comments

Journalists Wary of Travelling to US Due to Palantir Surveillance(bsky.app)

159 points by Kapura 1 year ago | 105 comments

Telephone Exchanges in the UK(telephone-exchanges.org.uk)

151 points by petecooper 1 year ago | 65 comments

Simplest C++ Callback, from SumatraPDF(blog.kowalczyk.info)

146 points by jandeboevrie 1 year ago | 142 comments

Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment(github.com)

139 points by kim_rutherford 1 year ago | 28 comments

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book(understandingai.org)

136 points by aspenmayer 1 year ago | 192 comments

DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming(darpa.mil)

127 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 90 comments

It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)(thehustle.co)

125 points by rmason 1 year ago | 115 comments

Real-time CO2 monitoring without batteries or external power(news.kaist.ac.kr)

116 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 27 comments

Munich from a Hamburger's perspective(mertbulan.com)

116 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 91 comments

Datalog in miniKanren(deosjr.github.io)

110 points by deosjr 1 year ago | 13 comments

GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)(linuxgazette.net)

104 points by marcodiego 1 year ago | 59 comments

ZX Spectrum graphics magic(zxonline.net)

103 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 33 comments

How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you(nature.com)

98 points by XzetaU8 1 year ago | 70 comments

Show HN: I made an online Unicode Cuneiform digital clock(oisinmoran.com)

96 points by OisinMoran 1 year ago | 28 comments

Iron nitride permanent magnets made with DIY ball mill [video](youtube.com)

95 points by xqcgrek2 1 year ago | 26 comments

Reinventing circuit breakers with supercritical CO2(spectrum.ieee.org)

90 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 31 comments

I Wrote a Compiler(blog.singleton.io)

88 points by ingve 1 year ago | 50 comments

Nvidia CEO criticizes Anthropic boss over his statements on AI(tomshardware.com)

83 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 101 comments

An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element (2024)(developer.chrome.com)

80 points by tentacleuno 1 year ago | 71 comments

Show HN: Meow – An Image File Format I made because PNGs and JPEGs suck for AI(github.com)

75 points by kuberwastaken 1 year ago | 62 comments

Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain(japantimes.co.jp)

72 points by gslin 1 year ago | 51 comments

The experience continues until you stop experiencing it(strangemachine.tv)

71 points by durakot 1 year ago | 22 comments

Writing Toy Software Is a Joy(jsbarretto.com)

70 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 15 comments

I want to be a Journey Programmer Again(hexhowells.com)

69 points by hexhowells 1 year ago | 53 comments

Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, a Failure for the Climate(insideclimatenews.org)

66 points by rntn 1 year ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Tikt.com – Remove the "OK" from TikTok URL's to Download as MP3 or MP4(tikt.com)

66 points by nadermx 1 year ago | 23 comments

Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis(default.blog)

66 points by greenie_beans 1 year ago | 49 comments

Large language models often know when they are being evaluated(arxiv.org)

60 points by jonbaer 1 year ago | 74 comments

Tiny-diffusion: A minimal implementation of probabilistic diffusion models(github.com)

58 points by BraverHeart 1 year ago | 3 comments

A different take on S-expressions(gist.github.com)

55 points by tearflake 1 year ago | 38 comments

Sperm are very different from all other cells(bbc.com)

48 points by viewtransform 1 year ago | 35 comments

A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)(newyorker.com)

42 points by georgecmu 1 year ago | 30 comments

Show HN: Seastar – Build and dependency manager for C/C++ with Cargo's features(github.com)

40 points by AI314159 1 year ago | 35 comments

How fast can the RPython GC allocate?(pypy.org)

39 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Container-compose – A Docker-compose like tool for Apple containers(github.com)

38 points by Noghartt 1 year ago | 10 comments

FAA pick has claimed 'commercial' pilot license he doesn't have(politico.com)

37 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 1 comments

The Algebra of an Infinite Grid of Resistors(mathpages.com)

37 points by gone35 1 year ago | 9 comments

Notes on the History of the Map Tile(placing.technology)

36 points by altilunium 1 year ago | 7 comments

An Introduction to the Hieroglyphic Language of Early 1900s Train-Hoppers(openculture.com)

34 points by squircle 1 year ago | 4 comments

Strangers in the Middle of a City: The John and Jane Does of L.A. Medical Center(latimes.com)

33 points by dangle1 1 year ago | 11 comments

Root Cause of the June 12, 2025 Google Cloud Outage(twitter.com)

32 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 15 comments

Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C2h-N6(nature.com)

29 points by bilsbie 1 year ago | 17 comments

Calculating Oil Storage Tank Occupancy with Help of Satellite Imagery(medium.com)

28 points by marklit 1 year ago | 7 comments

Spatializing 6k years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000(nature.com)

27 points by talonx 1 year ago | 3 comments

That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam(popsci.com)

23 points by geox 1 year ago | 34 comments